> With git, you don't have to worry about it.
Wait until you see a badly managed git server that serves a central repository. You'll quickly change your mind if pushes start failing randomly.
Wait until you see a badly managed git server that serves a central repository. You'll quickly change your mind if pushes start failing randomly.
But I can't code a better sysadmin into either git or Perforce. A badly managed Perforce server will have the same issues. (Unless, of course, you have an argument that Perforce under bad management somehow performs better than git under similar conditions.)
With git, however, I can still commit, and I can still push and pull changes from other people using side channels such as email. I can, for the most part, keep working. Is it more difficult? Of course. But in the particular scenario, git outperforms Perforce, in my opinion. (But this is not the primary reason I use git; at work, we use GitHub and git in very much a centralized manner. GitHub has its outages, and they're annoying. But not work-ending.)
I never said that perforce would perform in any way better, but I'd argue that if your VCS server is mismanaged you'd better change the person managing because a badly managed VCS means trouble all around. Try pushing your changes via email to your CI server. Fully decentralized would be beautiful, but I seriously don't see many teams that use git (or any other system) in that manner. Some parts of the infrastructure fundamentally end up being centralized, as stupid and wasteful as it is.
> I'd argue that if your VCS server is mismanaged you'd better change the person managing because a badly managed VCS means trouble all around.
I agree. The first time I read your argument, I interpreted it as a reason to not use git itself, but I think we're on the same page.
> Some parts of the infrastructure fundamentally end up being centralized, as stupid and wasteful as it is.
What else can be done? I don't really want to push changes to my co-workers individually, I want a place to push changes that any co-worker can then pull from — do I not? Toward this goal, certainly I could create n servers, and make pushing redundant over those n servers, have then do consensus to agree on HEAD, etc., but that seems to me to be what I'm paying GitHub to do.